Catalogue number #470

Fluorapatite & Muscovite on Albite

Golconda Mine, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Size 2.4x1.3x1cm

Price £25



Delicate blue zoned apatite crystals to 1.5mm and translucent yellowish muscovite 1-2mm on albite. Also white microcrystalline aggregates which are probably bertrandite but this has not been confirmed. Some damage and chips to apatite but an interesting and pretty thumbnail. Apatite fluoresces yellow under SW UV.

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